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Six Chinese nationals were killed, and nine more are missing after a fire broke out at a gas chemical complex in Russia’s far eastern Amur region, the plant said on Wednesday (August 26, 2026). A total of seven people died, and 152 people were treated for injuries, including 36 who were rushed to hospitals, the…
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A woman walks as vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Five commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday (August 25, 2026), little changed from a day earlier but well below the 10-day average of 15, preliminary shipping data showed…
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A satellite view shows Typhoon Saudel approaching the Ryukyu Islands, Japan in this screengrab from a timelapse video taken between August 24 and August 25, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters A powerful typhoon headed west over the East China Sea on Wednesday (August 26, 2026) after slamming Okinawa and other remote southwestern Japanese islands, causing…
A view of works of the first berth of Kakinada Gateway port at Kona in Kakinada district. Photo: Arrangement The Gateway port being built in the Kakinada Special Economic Zone (KSEZ) is set to be commissioned by early next year, as the construction of the above 3.3-kilometre-long breakwater facility has been completed at Kona in…
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President Donald Trump speaks during a back to school event in the Rose Garden of the White House. File | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a pause on visa appointments for applicants around the world during an ongoing immigration crackdown by the U.S. government in the Republican leader’s second term in…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA) has cut the user development fee (UDF) for domestic passengers departing from Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport by more than 30%, reducing it from ₹750 to ₹515 under a new tariff calculation framework. The revised tariff…
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A surge in attacks across Southern Thailand has put a spotlight on the low-level insurgency by Muslim separatists that has killed thousands of people in the last two decades. Dozens of coordinated night-time attacks across the three southernmost provinces near Malaysia over the weekend injured three people and left government buildings and vehicles burned. Also…
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Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Reuters Market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty were trading higher in early trade on Wednesday (August 26, 2026), in tandem with a positive trend in global equities, amid a sharp decline in crude oil prices. Foreign fund inflows also added to the positive trend in the…
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In mid-July, two OpenAI models escaped their confined testing environment and gained access to the internet, where they found and attacked Hugging Face [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS ChatGPT-maker OpenAI faces an investigation by the state of Alabama after the company revealed last month that its models went rogue and hacked an AI platform during…
Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: rohini pandey In a world where trees are considered a hazard and hindrance to development, a village in Telangana is standing by the tree they loved and cherished for decades. Residents of Pedda Thandrapadu, a village in Rajoli mandal of Jogulamba Gadwal district, have forged a…
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